Configuring Platform Event Filters

Platform Event Filters

A platform event filter (PEF) can trigger an action and generate an alert when a critical hardware-related event occurs. For each PEF, you can choose the action to be taken (or take no action) when a platform event occurs. You can also choose to generate and send an alert when a platform event occurs. Alerts are sent as an SNMP trap, so you must configure an SNMP trap destination before the alerts can be sent.

You can globally enable or disable the generation of platform event alerts. When disabled, alerts are not sent even if PEFs are configured to send them.

If you configure any PEFs to send an alert, complete the following tasks:

Enable platform event alerts

Configure SNMP trap settings

Interpreting
Platform Event Traps

A
CIMC platform event alert sent as an SNMP
trap contains an enterprise object identifier (OID) in the form
1.3.6.1.4.1.3183.1.1.0.event. The
first ten fields of the OID represent the following information:
iso(1).org(3).dod(6).internet(1).private(4).enterprises(1).wired_for_management(3183).PET(1).version(1).version(0),
indicating an IPMI platform event trap (PET) version 1.0 message. The last
field is an event number, indicating the specific condition or alert being
notified.

Platform Event
Trap Descriptions

The following table
provides a description of the event being notified in a platform event trap
message, based on the event number in the trap OID.